The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS,

MINISTER PENDLEToN will sail for Europe on
March 9. to return to his post in Berlin
SENATOR INGALLS,, when he delivers bis satir
ical and striking speeches, never raises his voice
above a monotone and rarely gesticulates.
Mrs. GRANT was the guest of Mrs. Cleveland
at the White House, on last Saturday. Yester.
day she left Washington for her home in New
York
No monument to Garibaldi has yet been
erected at Naples. 1t is now proposed to place
one on the heights of st. Elmo, where it can be
seen from all parts of the city.
ALLEN G. THURMAN has the best assortment
of chickens in his neighborhood. and takes good
of them; but with all his wealth. he keeps
no horses Mrs. Thurman is afraid to ride, and
her husband does not care to.
DETROIT Free Press: A New England writer
says it is popular error to suppose that all min
listers sons are hanged or sent TO State prison,
and he furnishes list of forty-three who are re-
spectacle and law-abiding men.
QUEEN MARGARET of Italy is exceptionally
susceptible to cold and seldom is without
heavy wrap even in we'll warmed rooms Her
own apartments in the Qurinal are kept at a
temperature which is TO most people oppressively
hot
SENATOR STANFORD manages the Central Pa
cifc by receiving every day in Washington a
telegraph report half column or more in length
from his representatives in California Every
evening he sends off telegram equally minute
giving his directions in detail
THERE is presently to be erected in the
Cathedral of Rouen, France a monumental
statue of Rene Robert Caveler de la Sale, the
explorer of the great lakes and the Mississippi
river. and founder of the French colony of
Louisiana. He was native of Rouen
HIS friends in Charleston having planned to
present to him on st. Patricks day a chaliee of
gold, Monsieuor Quieley has requested them
not to do so. The greatest honor that can be
conferred upon him. he says. is the completion
and conservation of St Patricks Church
HENRY c. Bowen has been in Washington
making arrangements for his next Fourth of
July celebration at Woodstock special feat
ure will be personal recollections of the three
most distinguished men of our times-Lincoln.
Grant and Logan" and it is expected that Col.
John Hay will speak of Lincoln, Gen. Horace
Porter of Grant, and Col Clark E. Carr of Lo-
gan.
GENERAL. BEALE, of Washington, is one Of
the largest landed propretors in the United
States. His cattle ranch, Tejou, embraces $780,
900 acres. eighty miles north OF Los Angeles,
Cal, upon which are 40. 900 head Of cattle and
horses. He has farm of several hundred
acres eight miles from Washington. where he
has stud of blooded stock. He also possesses
a large estate IN Chester, Pa
A VERY remarkable operation has just been
performed by Mr. Keetley at the West London
Hospital A child was brought in having n
large mole covering nearly the whole Of its
cheek. He transplanted the mole by ex-
change. That is, he removed the mole from
the cheek to the arm and planted flesh from the
arm on the cheek. Everything succeeded per-
fectly. Mole and child are both doing well.
GENERAL BERDAN has completed ind exhib.
| tied working model of his new torpedo-boat
The vessel ia to be $50 feet long. 20 fee. in
breadth and l6 feet deep; speed, "a 6.lO kpots
| per hour The torpedoes are discharged from
| two vertical tubes the sides of the boat. and
| are gauged to go under the ordinary protecting
net used on ships of war TO protect their bulls
| and strike beneath the keel of the vessel at
| tackled
| THE japanese are artists in serving fish The
flesh of the fab is cut in thin slices aud arranged
on the plate very neatly in the form of waves,
sometimes without taking the skin off, and it is
served with sauce called shoyu, composed of
mashed raw turnips, horseradsh and generally
| come fresh vegetables cut in small pieces and
seaweed. Probably more fish would be con-
sumed in this country if Americans possessed
the Japanese method Of cooking
| PRESIDENT GREvy of France, as everyone
knows, is very simple in his habits He ia now
nearly eighty years of age, and is growing
| feeble. He was reelected President because he
! was known to be an honest and a safe man.
/ Recently his physicians prescribed for him ia
drink two quarts Of milk day. and to sleep till
| o'clock in the morning. But AZ soon as she
milkman. who brings the purest milk from the